Bet365 make West Ham 17/2 favourites for this one, with the Cherries 3/1 outsiders. Just as it seemed as if a rather turgid clash with Bournemouth was drifting aimlessly towards a drab stalemate, the former Reading, Sheffield Wednesday and Nottingham Forest winger rose above Charlie Daniels to head home new signing Gokhan Tore’s far-post cross with just five minutes remaining.
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Slaven Bilic admitted not being happy after drawing with Astra but is confident West Ham should still progress into the Europa League group stages.
Ayew completed a three-year move worth £20.5 million from Swansea earlier this month, a season after joining the Welsh side from French Ligue 1 outfit Marseille.
In round 1 West Ham gosteval at Chelsea and, if you believe the statistics, we completely lost the match in all aspects of the game (2: 1).
Stay tuned for more updates and build-up as we count down to kick-off.
The Hammers have scored at least one goal in each their last 14 league matches.
“As I said, we have a good result and with the greatest respect to them we should beat them, but we still have to do it”.
Trevor Sinclair has intimated on Twitter that he is not blown away by West Ham United’s new home at the Olympic Stadium. Bournemouth also will only play on the counterattack and trust to errors West Ham.
Payet will certainly be seen as West Ham’s danger man, having taken the English top-flight by storm in his first season after completing a move from Marseille previous year.
West Ham then needed a reaction save from goalkeeper Adrian followed by a clearance from near the goal-line to preserve its first league win at the team’s new home.
Coming off the back of a 2-1 loss to Chelsea on the opening day, the Hammers were looking forward to getting their top-flight campaign up and running, especially after the disappointing 1-1 draw to Astra Giurgiu in their Europa League qualifier first-leg in mid-week.
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We met them twice in the old Division Two back in the 1989-90 season, we drew 1-1 at Dean Court and lost 4-1 at their ground.
